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Chicago examiner 4 â€¢ vol xv no 101 a m * * wednesday Chicago april 18 1917 wednesday rÃŸeai-tered ptjtf'it lvtr n?i.t in chicaeo and elsewhere u s patent office r__hj Â«_Â»._. j x suburbs two cents 11,000 germans captured as great offensive goes on amid rain and snow british ad vance north of st quentin london april 17.â€”aihed victories on the western front and the berlin strike are to cause a dramatic move in german public opinion according to rumors on the amsterdam bourse says a daily express dispatch from amsterdam london april 17.â€”allied and teuton armies are locked in a life and death grapple on a iront of 150 miles one of the greatest hattles of the mighty war and therefore in the world's history is in progress on the river aisne was the opening sen tence of to-day's berlin war office bulletin continuing their terrific attack against the german positions be tween soissons and rheims and east of the latter place to-day the french carried german first line positions over many miles of front captured powerfully organized heights occu pied the important village of aube l-ive and on this part of the front about two mil-s in extent took more than 2,500 prisoners 11,000 germans taken by french troops the french took german first sec ond and even third lines and at bri mont broke clear through eere they are in a position to turn the flank of fort brimont where krupp guns have bombarded rheims according to the official statement from the war office strong german counter attacks were repulsed the number of german prisoners taken by the trench monday is now placed at 11,000 our troops proved themselves irre sistible says to-night's report from __â€¢ war office we enlarged our ac tion day east of rheims and at tacked the german lines between prunay ajlil the road between st hi laire and st souplet inoiv and rain fail to stop offensive notwithstanding violent gusts of rain and snow the french cariied on a front of nine and one-third m:les all the german first positions south of moronvilliers pushing beyond the moronvilliers section the french on a front of about seven miles carried the entire line of fortified heights from mont carnillet as far east as vaudesin jourt the british made a further advance in the neighborhood of epekjv last night according to an official state ment issued by the war office rain atorms are hampering operations the british gain was effected f.ast of the peronne-cambrai railroad at a point about half way between st quentin and cambrai the french held every yard of ground gained yesterday in their sudden smash between soissons and food tax is planned for war billion washington april 17 the house ways and means committee charged with respon sibility of raising nearly 1,000 000,000 a year additional revenue has under consideration these consumption taxes sugar 1 cent a pound coffee 3 cents a pound tea 15 cents a pound other discussed taxes include increase in revenue tax on whisky from 1.10 to 1.25 or 1.50 per gallon increase in beer tax from 1 per barrel to 1.50 or 2 per bar rel graduated increase of 50 per cent on all existing tobacco taxes general increase in taxes on luxuries including imported soaps perfumeries laces silks etc dry Chicago is war demand federation asks council to grant no liquor licenses dur â€¢ ing conflict i the city council yesterday re ceived from the dry Chicago federa tion a petition to grant no more liquor licenses of any kind as a war measure to meet the food shortage the object is to prevent the use of grain for malt or spirituous liquors a committee will meet mayor thompson this morning and urge him to support such an ordinance the members of the committee are the rev dr philip yarrow superin tendent of the federation a w har ris and charles e coleman the resolution 1 asking that Chicago be declared dry as a war measure was adopted yesterday at a meeting of the board of directors of the fed eration after setting forth the des perate need of the country for all the grain as food the resolution says the dry Chicago federation hereby petitions the city council of the city of Chicago to pass an ordinance to provide that no licenses of any kind be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors during the war and the dry chi cago federation calls upon all citi zens in the name of our country to lend support to this patriotic plan essential to complete pre paredness r d hill gives u s 30,000 u-boat chaser russell d hill of lake forest head of r d hill & co a real estate firm at 112 west adams street pur chased in new york a 30,000 71-foot yacht which he said yesterday has been accepted by the government for patrol service mr hill will command the yacht with the rank of ensign bernhardt operated on resting quietly new york april 17 â€” an opera tion was performed late to-night upon mme sarah bernhardt who is des perately ill at mount sinai hospital from kid33ey trouble the physicians concluded her only chance lay in im mediate operation a bulletin issued after the operation said she is now resting quietly 6 camps to train 10,000 officers will open may 8 to provide lead ers for first army of 500,000 fort sheridan one of the sites personnel limited to members of reserve corps no arrange ments for pay during course selection of the first 10,000 officers for the first half million men in the united states army will be made in special training camps scattered across the country in the three months beginning may 8 six camps will be established in four cities in the central army dis trict two camps will be lo.cated at fort sheridjmi one for Illinois and one for michigan and wisconsin the indiana camp will be at fort benja min harrison others at fort snell ing minn and fort riley kan will be for minnesota lowa kansas and other states each camp will accommodate 2,500 men applications of those who wish to become officers in the reserve corps or who want three months training may be filed with the com manding general central department federal building train reservists only attendance is limited to reserve officers of infantry cavalry field ar tillery coast artillery and engineers members of the reserve officers training corps over twenty years and nine months old and cadet stu dents military school graduates and others not more than forty-four years old all must conform to war depart ment standards of character sobri ety personality education and like lihood of ability to command pref erence will be given to men of mili tary training no assurance of pay in each camp the men will be di vided into fifteen infantry companies and all trained alike for one month then organized into special units â€” infantry cavalry artillery and en gineers no assurance of pay can be given applicants there is no appropria tion yet nor authority to order re serve officers to active duty this must depend on congress all men enlisted are urged to get uniforms before joining the camps max linder seriously ill of war wounds max'lindei - , famous motion picture comedian who made his first two american films in Chicago is seri ously ill in los angeles according to word received at midnight the ill ness is the result of wounds received while driving an ambulance in the french army last year nearing's pacifism loses toledo u post toledo april 17 â€” professor scott nearing was dismissed as dean of arts and sciences in toledo university to night by the trustees 4 to 3 for his stand against national defense ambassador page would quit london washington april 17.â€”ambassa dor walter hines page at london has renewed it is reported here his request to be permitted to retire from the diplomatic service wilson asks g.o.p aid on conscription calls representatives mann and lenroot republican faction leaders to white house ( ______ urges selective draft bill be passed unamended negative * report is expected to-day washington april 17 â€” the prospect of an unfavorable report on the selective draft bill by the house committee was heightened to-night by the reappearance of secretary ba ker before the committee with addi tional arguments why the bill should be reported without amendment when the committee adjourned at 10 o'clock it was announced some of the opposition had been met by state ments that conscription is necessary the committee will meet again at 10 o'clock to-morrow when a vote will be taken on reporting the bill wilson reads riot act the president summoned chairman dent of the house committee a pacifist to the white house and read him the riot act for blocking the speedy provision of an adequate army by universal service he warned any attempt to raise the army so direly needed by the volunteer system would cause dangerous delay if not utter failure dent showed no signs of yielding and later said i have not changed my position then the president summoned min ority leader mann and representa tive lenroot republicans to the white house he appealed to them for aid to defeat the obstructive tac tics of members of his own party special message possible the disagreement in the committee may result in president wilson de livering a special address to con gress to arouse sentiment to force the bill through the house quick ly here is the way the house commit tees has lined up on the bill for democrats â€” fields kentucky i olney massachusetts harrison vir ginia republicans â€” kahn califor nia mckenzie Illinois green ver mont morin pennsylvania tilson connecticut and crago pennsyl vania â€” 9 against democrats dent chair man iuitiii mississippi gordon ohio littlepnge west virginia shai lenberger nebraska caldwell new york wise georgia nlcholls south carolina republicans â€” anthony kansas hull lowa â€” 10 i wish it to be understood said secretary of war baker that in urg ing this selective draft i am not pleading for any permanent war pol icy of our government but for an emergency of vast proportions which must be met at once if it is necessary to send troops to europe to take the places of those whose lives are lost in the struggle to which we are a party then un doubtedly it will be done secretary baker first appeared before the house committee on mili tary affairs this morning to urge ac ceptance of the war department bill as submitted the secretary stated the president desired increase of the regular army and the national guard to full strengtli immediate drafting into federal ser vice of the national guard and equal ization of the enlistment term adoption of a policy which will call into service for additional forces 1,500 a day now enlisting in regulars washington april 17â€”en listments in the army are at a rate of almost 1,500 a day the war department announced to-day from april 11 to 15 enlistments totaled 7,171 or 1,434 a day the navy shows figures behind those of the army saturday and monday two representative days yielded 1,635 in enlistments the marine corps is proceeding even slower with 1,947 in 15 days the navy now has an enlisted per sonnel of 71,696 within 15,304 of its authoried strength of 87,000 the marine corps is now with in 3,500 men of its authorized strength of 17,400 drastic spy act sent to senate criticism of war policies permit ted wilson empowered to declare embargoes washington april 17 the ad ministration's espionage bill was re ported to the senate to-night from the committee on the judiciary into the bill was inserted an amendment providing that it shall be unlawful to export any materials which in the view of the president is contrary to the public welfare and the exportation of which he prohibits by proclamation this gives the president power to declare an em bargo the death penalty for flagrant and treasonable espionage in time of war is permitted to remain in the bill but there have been modifications of the minimum penalties for espionage so that the convict may receive a sen tence as light as five years in prison instead of thirty years as provided in the original draft censorship modified very drastic censorship provisions in the bill introduced at the last ses sion have been somewhat modified by the inclusion of a new clause which reads provided that nothing iti this section shall be construed to limit or restrict nor shall any regula tion herein provided for limit or restrict any discussion comment or criticism of the acts or policies of the government or its represent atives or the publication of the same provided that no discussion commetit cr criticism shall convey information prohibited under the provision of this section would hit innocent but as opponents of the bill pointed out to-day sub-section c still contains a provisiott which is liable to throw an innocent offender behind the bars for ten years and in addition fine him 10,000 it says that whoever in time of war in vio lation of regulations prescribed by the president shall collect record publish communicate or attempt to elicit any information with respect to almost anything connected with naval or military operations or the national defense or which might be useful to the enemy is subject to the dire penalties already spoken of the point the opponents of the bill make is that someone asking in per fect good faith how many subma rines has this country now?"^or is commander blank still stationed at honolulu might be subject to fine and imprisonment the penalty was formerly death or imprisonment for thirty years it has been changed to death or imprison ment for five years death or thirty years imprison ment is still the penalty for any one who collects naval or military infor mation for the enemy u-boat blockade of u s on senate passes 7-billion bill 3 billions credit for allies 1n 24 hours 4,000,000,000 ready for amer ica first bond issue to be floated in two weeks final vote 84-0 all present voting washington april 17 the united states will be ready within twenty-four hours to place 3,000,000,000 to the credit of the entente allies and to spend 4,000,000,000 toward america's part in the war against germany the senate to-night unanimously passed the bill authorizing the issu ance of 5,000,000,000 worth of gov ernment bonds and 2,000,000,000 worth of short-term certificates of indebtedness for this purpose eighty-four senators voted â€” twelve being absent several minor amendments to the bill will necessitate that it be sent to a joint conference of senators and representatives an agreement may be reached shortly and the measure will be rushed to president wilson probably to-morrow afternoon for his signature will market bonds within two weeks the first allotment of the bonds probably totaling nearly one billion dollars is expected to be placed on the market within two weeks speakers for the absentees put each one in the record as favoring the bill if all â€¢ had been present the full strength of the senate membership wouu have been represented in 96 ayes and no nays absentees were bankhead goff hollis husting lane martin new lands smlch of michigan and smith of south carolina tillman under wood and warren the bill as it passed is strength ened to gain the unanimous approval of the country small financial in j stitutions such as some state and savings banks are fully protected no depositor of a bank who with draws his money for the purpose of the bonds can possibly harm his own interests or those of the depository because the bill now authorizes the secretary of the treasury to deposit with any bank or trust company an | amount not to exceed the sum with i warship attacked off n.y by diver torpedo misses destroyer smith by 30 yards submarine es capes shipping warned of campaign of frightful n<^fcu washington april 17 a submarine blockade of the american atlantic coast la this is the view of the govern ment here all merchant shipping approach ing our eastern ports has been ! warned by radio of the presence bj - | u-boats off new york and no vessel j will be allowed to leave except un der the heaviest protection and most stringent regulations the attack on the destroyer smith by a german submarine thirty-fivi 1 miles off sandy hook early this 1 morning was a shock to the govern ment although it had been expected declaration of war zones at all ports expected ' germany's next move it is belie vei here will be to declare war zones oif portland me boston newport c"^tf york the delaware chesapeake ba charleston and savannah all th principal eastern ports the attack on the smith was ths first verified case of a u-boat raid in american waters since the declu ation of war between the cn i states and germany th . . | rartment for several days has ta j receiving warnings of the pre i of hostile craft but investigation | failed to discover any u-boats commerce destroyers then off new york befor this morning a torpedo wi . ** which missed a unite ship by the narrowest margin the subnjarine was bigl i i },,. â€¢ united states patrol be and the chester the wake ol torpedo was plainly seen believed one of flotilla sent to terrorize shipping it is believed the under-sea bo:it a attacked was one of a flotilla seiu across the atlantic in a german ei jk fort of frightfulness to terrorize 2 american shipping there was even a belief attacks on outlyinp pi-'nts t by gunfire from the sea might or m cur the official announcement of n v submarine's presence in amo v waters was as bare ai tht d . . i ment could make it the department i â– , , â– m following statement the navy ik liir-.n^al u:\h eelved vhe fauatringl ' fl reported from fire inlnnd ! l hip to the natal ntntfona at h ton and nÂ»;t york at 'â– ':"'> a m on the 17th an enc-mv mibmarlne Â«â– > sighted by the i 9 s smith run nine apparently submergrd sub marine fired a torpedo at i . s s smith nhlrh nilxscd â€¢ j m^^bi tlilrlj yards the wake of ihh pedo nm plainly seen croihln^h botr submarine lnapreared somewhere off long island w^h Chicago and vicinity partiy cloudy with continued mild tempera ture wednesday followed hy showers wednesday nlgrht or thursday cÂ°oler thursday t_odernle to fresh south erly winds shifting to westerly thursday temperature for twenty-four liou__i ending 5 a m : highest 62 lowest 48 average 53 normal temperature for the day 4h deficiency of temperature since january 1 03 decrees precapitaticn for twenty-four hours ending at 7 r m 12 inch deftciwcy of precipitation since january 1 , 2.99 inches sunrise 5:07 sunset 6:34 u.s must send army abroad says gen wood boston april 17 get be hind the administration's policy back up universal obliga tory military service take your medicine like men said major general leonard wood address ing the american cotton waste exchange to-day he said there must be men in our uniform and under our flag across the ocean if we are going to win this war it is for the administration to say when the time shall be come it must we've got to put in living men and we've got to bring home dead men it is not a pleasant duty and no one realides that any more than the men in our army and navy 126,000 join berlin strike beginning of revolt like rus sia's seen in german labor disorders bulletin the hague april 17 â€” a mes sage from berlin says that 126,000 workers are now on strike in ber lin the tageblatt admits that a considerable number of these are munition workers berlin april 17 â€” the threat ened strikes because of a reduction in the weekly bread ration material ized in only a portion of the larger factories the strike leaders had planned an elaborate system of street demonstrations but inclement weather kept down enthusiasm the workers appeared in all the factories as usual but an hour later those who toad agreed to ' strike walked out the police however prevented the paraders from enter ing unter den linden the marchers who appeared on other streets were cheered heartily by crowds work was resumed to-day in most of the factories left idle yesterday start op revolt seen copenhagen april 17 news of the strike in berlin made a deep im pression among russians here they see in the demonstrations the begin ning of a german revolution for the overthrow of the hohenzollerti dy nasty and restoration of peace the correspondents of russian newspapers took this view but per sons who have recently arrived here from berlin are tiot inclined to agree with it declaring too much impor tance should not be attached to the demonstration the regular socilaistic organization threw the weight of their influence against any strike strike halted in berlin the leaders of the unions however spoke in the plainest manner to the government on the necessity of keep ing the promises made regarding the food supply at this time as a result the movement was kept within bounds in greater berlin the strike is the first considerable labor trouble in the german capital since the munition workers struck when dr karl liebknecht was con victed of treason at that time al most 100,000 men were idle for three days argentine to demand berlin explain acts buenos aires april 17.â€”argen tine has decided to demand an imme diate explanation from germany of the sinking of the sailing vessel monte protegido by a submarine the ger man minister has said to have in timated his government might pledge against further sinkings of argentina ships front of 16 miles caved in by french continued on 2d page 4th column continued on 2d page sth column continued on 4th page 5th column petition to congress on next page for a universal service lav

Chicago examiner 4 â€¢ vol xv no 101 a m * * wednesday Chicago april 18 1917 wednesday rÃŸeai-tered ptjtf'it lvtr n?i.t in chicaeo and elsewhere u s patent office r__hj Â«_Â»._. j x suburbs two cents 11,000 germans captured as great offensive goes on amid rain and snow british ad vance north of st quentin london april 17.â€”aihed victories on the western front and the berlin strike are to cause a dramatic move in german public opinion according to rumors on the amsterdam bourse says a daily express dispatch from amsterdam london april 17.â€”allied and teuton armies are locked in a life and death grapple on a iront of 150 miles one of the greatest hattles of the mighty war and therefore in the world's history is in progress on the river aisne was the opening sen tence of to-day's berlin war office bulletin continuing their terrific attack against the german positions be tween soissons and rheims and east of the latter place to-day the french carried german first line positions over many miles of front captured powerfully organized heights occu pied the important village of aube l-ive and on this part of the front about two mil-s in extent took more than 2,500 prisoners 11,000 germans taken by french troops the french took german first sec ond and even third lines and at bri mont broke clear through eere they are in a position to turn the flank of fort brimont where krupp guns have bombarded rheims according to the official statement from the war office strong german counter attacks were repulsed the number of german prisoners taken by the trench monday is now placed at 11,000 our troops proved themselves irre sistible says to-night's report from __â€¢ war office we enlarged our ac tion day east of rheims and at tacked the german lines between prunay ajlil the road between st hi laire and st souplet inoiv and rain fail to stop offensive notwithstanding violent gusts of rain and snow the french cariied on a front of nine and one-third m:les all the german first positions south of moronvilliers pushing beyond the moronvilliers section the french on a front of about seven miles carried the entire line of fortified heights from mont carnillet as far east as vaudesin jourt the british made a further advance in the neighborhood of epekjv last night according to an official state ment issued by the war office rain atorms are hampering operations the british gain was effected f.ast of the peronne-cambrai railroad at a point about half way between st quentin and cambrai the french held every yard of ground gained yesterday in their sudden smash between soissons and food tax is planned for war billion washington april 17 the house ways and means committee charged with respon sibility of raising nearly 1,000 000,000 a year additional revenue has under consideration these consumption taxes sugar 1 cent a pound coffee 3 cents a pound tea 15 cents a pound other discussed taxes include increase in revenue tax on whisky from 1.10 to 1.25 or 1.50 per gallon increase in beer tax from 1 per barrel to 1.50 or 2 per bar rel graduated increase of 50 per cent on all existing tobacco taxes general increase in taxes on luxuries including imported soaps perfumeries laces silks etc dry Chicago is war demand federation asks council to grant no liquor licenses dur â€¢ ing conflict i the city council yesterday re ceived from the dry Chicago federa tion a petition to grant no more liquor licenses of any kind as a war measure to meet the food shortage the object is to prevent the use of grain for malt or spirituous liquors a committee will meet mayor thompson this morning and urge him to support such an ordinance the members of the committee are the rev dr philip yarrow superin tendent of the federation a w har ris and charles e coleman the resolution 1 asking that Chicago be declared dry as a war measure was adopted yesterday at a meeting of the board of directors of the fed eration after setting forth the des perate need of the country for all the grain as food the resolution says the dry Chicago federation hereby petitions the city council of the city of Chicago to pass an ordinance to provide that no licenses of any kind be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors during the war and the dry chi cago federation calls upon all citi zens in the name of our country to lend support to this patriotic plan essential to complete pre paredness r d hill gives u s 30,000 u-boat chaser russell d hill of lake forest head of r d hill & co a real estate firm at 112 west adams street pur chased in new york a 30,000 71-foot yacht which he said yesterday has been accepted by the government for patrol service mr hill will command the yacht with the rank of ensign bernhardt operated on resting quietly new york april 17 â€” an opera tion was performed late to-night upon mme sarah bernhardt who is des perately ill at mount sinai hospital from kid33ey trouble the physicians concluded her only chance lay in im mediate operation a bulletin issued after the operation said she is now resting quietly 6 camps to train 10,000 officers will open may 8 to provide lead ers for first army of 500,000 fort sheridan one of the sites personnel limited to members of reserve corps no arrange ments for pay during course selection of the first 10,000 officers for the first half million men in the united states army will be made in special training camps scattered across the country in the three months beginning may 8 six camps will be established in four cities in the central army dis trict two camps will be lo.cated at fort sheridjmi one for Illinois and one for michigan and wisconsin the indiana camp will be at fort benja min harrison others at fort snell ing minn and fort riley kan will be for minnesota lowa kansas and other states each camp will accommodate 2,500 men applications of those who wish to become officers in the reserve corps or who want three months training may be filed with the com manding general central department federal building train reservists only attendance is limited to reserve officers of infantry cavalry field ar tillery coast artillery and engineers members of the reserve officers training corps over twenty years and nine months old and cadet stu dents military school graduates and others not more than forty-four years old all must conform to war depart ment standards of character sobri ety personality education and like lihood of ability to command pref erence will be given to men of mili tary training no assurance of pay in each camp the men will be di vided into fifteen infantry companies and all trained alike for one month then organized into special units â€” infantry cavalry artillery and en gineers no assurance of pay can be given applicants there is no appropria tion yet nor authority to order re serve officers to active duty this must depend on congress all men enlisted are urged to get uniforms before joining the camps max linder seriously ill of war wounds max'lindei - , famous motion picture comedian who made his first two american films in Chicago is seri ously ill in los angeles according to word received at midnight the ill ness is the result of wounds received while driving an ambulance in the french army last year nearing's pacifism loses toledo u post toledo april 17 â€” professor scott nearing was dismissed as dean of arts and sciences in toledo university to night by the trustees 4 to 3 for his stand against national defense ambassador page would quit london washington april 17.â€”ambassa dor walter hines page at london has renewed it is reported here his request to be permitted to retire from the diplomatic service wilson asks g.o.p aid on conscription calls representatives mann and lenroot republican faction leaders to white house ( ______ urges selective draft bill be passed unamended negative * report is expected to-day washington april 17 â€” the prospect of an unfavorable report on the selective draft bill by the house committee was heightened to-night by the reappearance of secretary ba ker before the committee with addi tional arguments why the bill should be reported without amendment when the committee adjourned at 10 o'clock it was announced some of the opposition had been met by state ments that conscription is necessary the committee will meet again at 10 o'clock to-morrow when a vote will be taken on reporting the bill wilson reads riot act the president summoned chairman dent of the house committee a pacifist to the white house and read him the riot act for blocking the speedy provision of an adequate army by universal service he warned any attempt to raise the army so direly needed by the volunteer system would cause dangerous delay if not utter failure dent showed no signs of yielding and later said i have not changed my position then the president summoned min ority leader mann and representa tive lenroot republicans to the white house he appealed to them for aid to defeat the obstructive tac tics of members of his own party special message possible the disagreement in the committee may result in president wilson de livering a special address to con gress to arouse sentiment to force the bill through the house quick ly here is the way the house commit tees has lined up on the bill for democrats â€” fields kentucky i olney massachusetts harrison vir ginia republicans â€” kahn califor nia mckenzie Illinois green ver mont morin pennsylvania tilson connecticut and crago pennsyl vania â€” 9 against democrats dent chair man iuitiii mississippi gordon ohio littlepnge west virginia shai lenberger nebraska caldwell new york wise georgia nlcholls south carolina republicans â€” anthony kansas hull lowa â€” 10 i wish it to be understood said secretary of war baker that in urg ing this selective draft i am not pleading for any permanent war pol icy of our government but for an emergency of vast proportions which must be met at once if it is necessary to send troops to europe to take the places of those whose lives are lost in the struggle to which we are a party then un doubtedly it will be done secretary baker first appeared before the house committee on mili tary affairs this morning to urge ac ceptance of the war department bill as submitted the secretary stated the president desired increase of the regular army and the national guard to full strengtli immediate drafting into federal ser vice of the national guard and equal ization of the enlistment term adoption of a policy which will call into service for additional forces 1,500 a day now enlisting in regulars washington april 17â€”en listments in the army are at a rate of almost 1,500 a day the war department announced to-day from april 11 to 15 enlistments totaled 7,171 or 1,434 a day the navy shows figures behind those of the army saturday and monday two representative days yielded 1,635 in enlistments the marine corps is proceeding even slower with 1,947 in 15 days the navy now has an enlisted per sonnel of 71,696 within 15,304 of its authoried strength of 87,000 the marine corps is now with in 3,500 men of its authorized strength of 17,400 drastic spy act sent to senate criticism of war policies permit ted wilson empowered to declare embargoes washington april 17 the ad ministration's espionage bill was re ported to the senate to-night from the committee on the judiciary into the bill was inserted an amendment providing that it shall be unlawful to export any materials which in the view of the president is contrary to the public welfare and the exportation of which he prohibits by proclamation this gives the president power to declare an em bargo the death penalty for flagrant and treasonable espionage in time of war is permitted to remain in the bill but there have been modifications of the minimum penalties for espionage so that the convict may receive a sen tence as light as five years in prison instead of thirty years as provided in the original draft censorship modified very drastic censorship provisions in the bill introduced at the last ses sion have been somewhat modified by the inclusion of a new clause which reads provided that nothing iti this section shall be construed to limit or restrict nor shall any regula tion herein provided for limit or restrict any discussion comment or criticism of the acts or policies of the government or its represent atives or the publication of the same provided that no discussion commetit cr criticism shall convey information prohibited under the provision of this section would hit innocent but as opponents of the bill pointed out to-day sub-section c still contains a provisiott which is liable to throw an innocent offender behind the bars for ten years and in addition fine him 10,000 it says that whoever in time of war in vio lation of regulations prescribed by the president shall collect record publish communicate or attempt to elicit any information with respect to almost anything connected with naval or military operations or the national defense or which might be useful to the enemy is subject to the dire penalties already spoken of the point the opponents of the bill make is that someone asking in per fect good faith how many subma rines has this country now?"^or is commander blank still stationed at honolulu might be subject to fine and imprisonment the penalty was formerly death or imprisonment for thirty years it has been changed to death or imprison ment for five years death or thirty years imprison ment is still the penalty for any one who collects naval or military infor mation for the enemy u-boat blockade of u s on senate passes 7-billion bill 3 billions credit for allies 1n 24 hours 4,000,000,000 ready for amer ica first bond issue to be floated in two weeks final vote 84-0 all present voting washington april 17 the united states will be ready within twenty-four hours to place 3,000,000,000 to the credit of the entente allies and to spend 4,000,000,000 toward america's part in the war against germany the senate to-night unanimously passed the bill authorizing the issu ance of 5,000,000,000 worth of gov ernment bonds and 2,000,000,000 worth of short-term certificates of indebtedness for this purpose eighty-four senators voted â€” twelve being absent several minor amendments to the bill will necessitate that it be sent to a joint conference of senators and representatives an agreement may be reached shortly and the measure will be rushed to president wilson probably to-morrow afternoon for his signature will market bonds within two weeks the first allotment of the bonds probably totaling nearly one billion dollars is expected to be placed on the market within two weeks speakers for the absentees put each one in the record as favoring the bill if all â€¢ had been present the full strength of the senate membership wouu have been represented in 96 ayes and no nays absentees were bankhead goff hollis husting lane martin new lands smlch of michigan and smith of south carolina tillman under wood and warren the bill as it passed is strength ened to gain the unanimous approval of the country small financial in j stitutions such as some state and savings banks are fully protected no depositor of a bank who with draws his money for the purpose of the bonds can possibly harm his own interests or those of the depository because the bill now authorizes the secretary of the treasury to deposit with any bank or trust company an | amount not to exceed the sum with i warship attacked off n.y by diver torpedo misses destroyer smith by 30 yards submarine es capes shipping warned of campaign of frightful n a m on the 17th an enc-mv mibmarlne Â«â– > sighted by the i 9 s smith run nine apparently submergrd sub marine fired a torpedo at i . s s smith nhlrh nilxscd â€¢ j m^^bi tlilrlj yards the wake of ihh pedo nm plainly seen croihln^h botr submarine lnapreared somewhere off long island w^h Chicago and vicinity partiy cloudy with continued mild tempera ture wednesday followed hy showers wednesday nlgrht or thursday cÂ°oler thursday t_odernle to fresh south erly winds shifting to westerly thursday temperature for twenty-four liou__i ending 5 a m : highest 62 lowest 48 average 53 normal temperature for the day 4h deficiency of temperature since january 1 03 decrees precapitaticn for twenty-four hours ending at 7 r m 12 inch deftciwcy of precipitation since january 1 , 2.99 inches sunrise 5:07 sunset 6:34 u.s must send army abroad says gen wood boston april 17 get be hind the administration's policy back up universal obliga tory military service take your medicine like men said major general leonard wood address ing the american cotton waste exchange to-day he said there must be men in our uniform and under our flag across the ocean if we are going to win this war it is for the administration to say when the time shall be come it must we've got to put in living men and we've got to bring home dead men it is not a pleasant duty and no one realides that any more than the men in our army and navy 126,000 join berlin strike beginning of revolt like rus sia's seen in german labor disorders bulletin the hague april 17 â€” a mes sage from berlin says that 126,000 workers are now on strike in ber lin the tageblatt admits that a considerable number of these are munition workers berlin april 17 â€” the threat ened strikes because of a reduction in the weekly bread ration material ized in only a portion of the larger factories the strike leaders had planned an elaborate system of street demonstrations but inclement weather kept down enthusiasm the workers appeared in all the factories as usual but an hour later those who toad agreed to ' strike walked out the police however prevented the paraders from enter ing unter den linden the marchers who appeared on other streets were cheered heartily by crowds work was resumed to-day in most of the factories left idle yesterday start op revolt seen copenhagen april 17 news of the strike in berlin made a deep im pression among russians here they see in the demonstrations the begin ning of a german revolution for the overthrow of the hohenzollerti dy nasty and restoration of peace the correspondents of russian newspapers took this view but per sons who have recently arrived here from berlin are tiot inclined to agree with it declaring too much impor tance should not be attached to the demonstration the regular socilaistic organization threw the weight of their influence against any strike strike halted in berlin the leaders of the unions however spoke in the plainest manner to the government on the necessity of keep ing the promises made regarding the food supply at this time as a result the movement was kept within bounds in greater berlin the strike is the first considerable labor trouble in the german capital since the munition workers struck when dr karl liebknecht was con victed of treason at that time al most 100,000 men were idle for three days argentine to demand berlin explain acts buenos aires april 17.â€”argen tine has decided to demand an imme diate explanation from germany of the sinking of the sailing vessel monte protegido by a submarine the ger man minister has said to have in timated his government might pledge against further sinkings of argentina ships front of 16 miles caved in by french continued on 2d page 4th column continued on 2d page sth column continued on 4th page 5th column petition to congress on next page for a universal service lav